bio

Sandrine Llouquet

Visual artist

Born, 1975 in Montpellier, France.

Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal

Miscellany

From January 2021

Founder of O Gabinete de Madame Thao, Lisbon, Portugal

https://ogabinetedemadamethao.com

September 2019 - September 2020

Grantee (Orient Foundation Research Grant), Lisbon, Portugal

June 2016 - July 2019

Director of Salon Saigon - Heritage and Contemporary Arts Museum, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

http://salonsaigon.com

2017 - 2019

Jury member of Villa Saigon (artists´ residency program by Institut Francais a Ho Chi Minh ville), Vietnam

2006 - 2010

Founding member of the Vietnamese collective Mogas Station

2000-2011

Founding member of Wonderful and Wonderful District with Bertrand Peret

2007 - 2015

VJing under the name of Discocactus

2010 -  Present

Member of Digital Mekong Creative Network

2011 - 2013

Founding member of Saigon Creative monthly talks, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

2007 – 2010

Member of Jetlag – a Vietnam-based DJs and VJ collective

Education

1993 – 1997     

École Pilote Internationale d’Art et de Recherche - Villa Arson, Nice, France

Diplôme National d’arts Plastiques

1997 – 1998     

Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Art, Vietnam

1998 – 1999     

École Pilote Internationale d’Art et de Recherche - Villa Arson, Nice, France

Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique

Selected Exhibitions

2023

"Capítulo 5: Em breve", A Base, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)

Le voyage suspendu, Showroom Vinfast, Paris, France

"Bau", Metaxu, Toulon, France

Neverwhere, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

2022

Art at the Park - Saigon Contemporary Art Fair, Park Hyatt Saigon, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

2020

Natura, ARTFEM Macau Biennale, China (catalog)

Lunar Breccia, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

10 ans, Le Point Commun, Annecy, France

2019

Where the Sea Remembers, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, US

Chapitre 4 : Days and Nights of Revolving Joy, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (solo)

2018

Alluvium, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

2017

Chapitre 3: Les 101 grandes deesses, Le Point Commun, Annecy, France (solo)

The Foliage, VCCA, Hanoi, Vietnam

Iris noirs resilients, Montpellier, France

2016

The Cabinet of Doctor Komo, Kenpoku Art, Ibaraki, Japan (solo) (catalog)

La diagonale du fou, SPRMRKT, Singapore (solo)

Transmutations, Galerie Quynh, Ho chi Minh city, Vietnam

2015

Chapitre 2: Midi, L'Espace, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo)

Carne Vale, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (duo show)

The Primacy of Drawing, Dia Project, Ho chi Minh city, Vietnam

2014

Daisy, Daisy, San Art Production, Phuong My Flagship Store, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (solo)

Papier(s), Fondation Salomon, Annecy, France

Drop, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Spring Galleria, San Art, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Galerie Quynh 10th anniversary, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

On the streets, Java Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2013

Chapter 1: Where I attempt to drown the dragon, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (solo)

Day of Discovery, Renaissance Riverside Hotel, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (solo)

Sovereign Asian Art Prize exhibition and auction in Singapore, Espace Louis Vuitton, Singapore

2012

Ligne de fuite, Post Vidai Collection, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (solo) (brochure)

AAA Annual Foundraiser, Sotherby's, Hong Kong

Group show, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

2011

Vis a vis, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Shaping a line, San Art, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Esperantopolis, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Mise en scene, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

The Art of Travel, Air France event, Flow, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Now Boarding. Island Thinking and Flights of Fancy, Give Art Space, Singapore

I would prefer not to, Give Art Space, Singapore (solo)

2010

ART HK 10, with Galerie Quynh, Hong Kong

No Soul For Sale 2, with Sanart, Tate Modern, London, UK

The Complex of the Glass Frog, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo)

Collective Memories: Together in Electric Dreams, Give Art, Singapore

No conical hat, Give Art, Singapore

Of reveries and obsessions, Galerie Quynh. Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Bordeaux Block Party, Eponyme Galerie, Bordeaux, France

2009

Half of the Sky, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Hanoi Future Art, Hanoi, Vietnam
Nghe Thuat Sap Dat, Ho Tram resort, Vietnam
Who Do You Think We Are?, Bui Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam

New Asian Promises, Palais Project, Vienna, Austria

2008

FOBII: Arts speaks (curated by Tram Le, Lan Duong), VAALA Center, Santa Ana, Californie, USA

Olio the year end show, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

transPOP:  Korea Vietnam Remix, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, US

Art multiple, Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China

transPOP:  Korea Vietnam Remix, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

Supervues, Hotel Burrhus, Vaison  la Romaine, France

Ce que je dis trois fois est absolument vrai, 3x+, Le mois de l’image, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (solo) (catalog)

Milk, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo) (catalog)

2007

Requiem for a wall, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Shenzhen Biennale (with Mogas Station), China (brochure)

Le mois de l’image (with Mogas Station), Ho Chi Minh City Fine Art Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Migration Addicts (with Mogas Station), a collateral event of the 52nd Venice Biennale, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy (brochure and catalog)

2006

LZ (with Mogas Station), Goethe-Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam

Belief (with Mogas Station), Singapore Biennale 2006 (brochure and catalog)

Jouissance, Xu Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Welcome Home, itinerant exhibition organized by Ipso Facto Gallery, Nantes, France (solo)

2005

Troi oi!, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo) (brochure)

Rendezvous, Blue Space Contemporary Art Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2004

Bleu presque transparent, Galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux, France (solo)

Chambre d’amis, Sandrine Llouquet and Bertrand Peret’s apartment, Bordeaux, France (solo)

Aujourd’hui c’est ravioli, Galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux, France

Buy sellf, municipal spaces, Marseille, France

2003

Livre N°12 (published by Peravprod), La Quincaillerie, Bordeaux, France

Soleil sur Nantes, Show Bedroom, Nantes, France

Ctrl+O, Inkorporation, Toulouse, France

2002

Kiki restaurant, Chez Chalana, Bordeaux, France (solo)

2001

Generic Workspace, Bordeaux, France

Buy sellf, Galerie BF15, Lyon, France

2000

Un thé chez les fous, No Beach, Bordeaux, France (solo)

1999

3 en k, Galerie rue Quineleu, Rennes, France

1998

Hoa si tre, Long Phi, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

1997

Tôi là ai, Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Art, Vietnam

1995

Nice by night, with Villa Arson, Nice, France

Performance / Directing, staging

2019

Lub Qhoj Rooj, performance, 20´, co-directed with choreographer Nguyen Phuc Hung, Krossing Over Arts Festival, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

2018

Perinthia, performance, 20', with dancer Nguyen Minh Tam and musicians Zach Shreier and Benoit Bottex, Krossing Over Arts Festival, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

2003

Thucnd1 Online, video performance, 6' - Incomprehension (with Le Pavillon), Palais de Tokyo site de création contemporaine, Paris, France

 Curating and art direction

2021 - today

O Gabinete de Madame Thao´s cultural programming

2023

Bau (André Almeida e Sousa, Luís Almeida, Constança Arouca, Francisca Carvalho, Run Jiang, Pedro Proença, Benoit Bottex, Sandrine Llouquet), Metaxu, Toulon

2022

1 (André Almeida e Sousa, Luís Almeida, Constança Arouca & Madalena Parreira, Francisca Carvalho, Nina Fraser, Run Jiang, Le Phi Long, Florian Song Nguyen, Bertrand Peret, Thao Nguyen Phan, Pedro Proença, Quentin Spohn, Truc-Anh and Mai-Loan Tu), O Gabinete de Madame Thao, Lisbon

Syzygie, um ritual para o Oceano (Filipe Lourenco, Florian Song Nguyen, Bao Vuong), LX Factory, Lisbon
Ainda não sabemos ao certo que florestas vamos atravessar (Nadege David, Hoang Duong Cam, Le Phi Long, Bertrand Peret, Pedro Proenca, Francisca Carvalho), O Gabinete de Madame Thao, Lisbon

2021

Historias de boudoir (Francisca Carvalho, Nina Fraser, Hoang Nam Viet, Florian Song Nguyen, Truc-Anh, Mai Loan Tu, João Vilhena), O Gabinete de Madame Thao, Lisbon

2016 - 2019

Salon Saigon cultural programming

2018

Les Villes Invisibles / Festival Krossing Over (Bao Vuong, Florian Nguyen, Sto Len, Hoang Nguyen, Dat Vu), Metaxu, Toulon

2017

Then I Can Turn the World Upside Down (Florian Nguyen, Hoang Nam Viet, Nguyen Manh Hung, Mai Hoang, Le Hoang Bich Phuong), Salon Saigon

To shut his thoughts up, he paints them clear and watches them dry (Mai Loan Tu), L'Usine, Ho Chi Minh city

Salon Saigon Permanent Collection (Bùi Công Khánh, Tiffany Chung, Hà Mạnh Thắng, Hoàng Dương Cầm, Chinh Lê, Dinh Q. Lê, Lê Hoàng Bích Phượng, Lê Thừa Tiến, Nguyễn BanGa, Nguyễn Hữu Trâm Kha, Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng, Nguyễn Phương Linh, Oanh Phi Phi, The Propeller Group, Trần Trọng Vũ, Truc Anh, Trương Tiến Trà, Trương Tân and Võ Trân Châu), Salon Saigon, Ho Chi Minh city

2016

Bittersweet Whispers (Mai-Loan Tu, Ngo Thi Thuy Duyen, Le Hoang Bich Phuong), Salon Saigon, Ho Chi Minh city

2008

AliceIN Miami (with Tam Vo Phi, Olivier Llouquet ang guest Stephane Cochard), organized by Bui Gallery, Miami Beach, US (with Wonderful District)

AliceIN Paris (with Tam Vo Phi, Olivier Llouquet and guest Rachid Ouramdane), organized by Bui Gallery, Paris, France (with Wonderful District)

2007

AliceIN Saigon (with Tam Vo Phi, Olivier Llouquet, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Robert Cianchi, Nhu Huy), Le mois de l’image, Fine Art Museum, Galerie Quynh, IDECAF, Ho Chi Minh City Photography Association, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – four nights of installation, video and sound performances in the nomadic architectural structure AliceIN (with Wonderful District)

A Wonderful Weekend, 72-13, Singapore - 3 days of exhibition, video projection, talks, sound performances, DJ and VJ nights – with Stephane Cochard, NS101, Madame Patate, Fugu, Vu Nhat Tan, Jean Phan, Rich Streitmatter-Tran, Robert Cianchi, Tam Vo Phi (with Wonderful District)

2006

Atelier Wonderful, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam - public programming included lectures on the visual arts, architecture, design, illustration, graffiti and other creative expressions; exhibitions, video projections; concerts; presentations of work by students.  Events occurred weekly over five months – with Delphine Trouche, BOOT, GF, G2, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Julie Tseselsky, George Papadimas, Bui Cong Khanh, Justin Barrera, Anna Tuyen Tran, Do Hoang Tuong, Jean-Baptiste Bressy, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Nhu Huy, Bruno Peinado, Motoko Uda, Seiji Shimoda, Thach Thao, Maharishi, Bui The Trung Nam, Laure Bollinger, Gulschan Gothel, Laurent Jeanneau, Nicolas Lainez, Tam Vo Phi, Karen Maldonado, Ecole Colette, British school… (with Wonderful District)

2005

Rendezvous (electronic and digital art event), Blue Space Contemporary Art Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – with the participation of Heidi, Tran Kim Ngoc, Rich Streitmatter-Tran, Bui Cong Khanh, Benoit Maire (with Wonderful District)

Sunday morning, Galerie Fra Angelico, Nantes, France – publication in collaboration with Frederic Amproux

2003 (with Wonderful)

Fémina squat, La Pieuvre, Point Noire, Republic of Congo - workshop and exhibition with a group of congolese artists organized by PSAP (with Wonderful)

Wonderful, Lendroit, Rennes, France (with Wonderful)

2002 – 2004

5ememur magazine (trimestrial magazine/nomadic art space welcoming artists site specific works) – with the participation of Paul Devautour, Seulgi Lee, Ciaddict.org, Laetitia Bourget, Erational, Julien Previeux, Beate Engl, Damien Mazieres, Remi Marie, Marc Vernier, Arnaud Maguet, Francoise Quardon, Pascale Martine-Tayou, Laurent Septier, Frederic Latherrade, Jean-Luc Desmond, Arnaud Ducasse, Bui Cong Khanh, Camille Fallet, Karin Pelte, Pierre Giquel, Maitetxu Etcheverria, Karim Ghelloussi, Patrice Ferreira, Axel Huber, Alexander Raima, Sebastien Blanco, PNCI, Jean-Luc Verna, Inkorporation, Patrich Hospital, Sylvain Courtoux, Anne-Marie Pecheur, Julien Bouillon

2001 (with Wonderful)

Aller-retour, artistic exchange between Bordeaux and Nantes – exhibitions in museums, cinemas, apartments, art galleries, cafes, night clubs - with the participation of 36 artists and collectives from Bordeaux and Nantes

2000 (with Wonderful)

No Beach, itinerant exhibition in apartments and a night club, Bordeaux – with the participation of 8 international artists and collectives (with Wonderful)

Participation in symposiums and conferences

2019

Art and Museum Summit - Getty Foundation / Asia Society, National Museum, New Delhi, India

2018

Korea Research fellow, 10 global curators x 10 Korean curators: "Asian Visual Culture and Art" - The Korean Culture and Information Service, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Cultural and Creative Hubs Vietnam Project - The British Council, Hanoi, Vietnam

2017

CIMAM Annual Conference: "The roles and Responsibilities of Museums in Civil  Society", National Gallery, Singapore

2006

"Cultural Ecologies: Communicating Contemporary Art in the 21st Century" - Asia Art Archive, Drama Theatre, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Wanchai, Hong Kong 

Monographies

• “Sandrine Llouquet: Milk”, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2008

• “Sandrine Llouquet: Le temps est magnifique”, publ. Wonderful, France, 2004

 

Group exhibition catalogues

2021

Natura, Artfem Bienale catalogue, Macau, China

2017

Kenpoku Art 2016, Exhibition Catalogue Japan

The Foliage, exhibition catalogue, VCCA, Hanoi, Vietnam

2010

• "Collective Memories: Together in Electric Dreams", exhibition catalogue, Give Art, Singapore

2009
• “Who Do You Think We Are?”, exhibition catalogue, The Bui Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam

2008
• “L’image fabriquee », exhibition catalogue, Le Mois de l’image 2008, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• “Art Multiple”, exhibition catalogue, Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
• “Transpop: Korea Vietnam Remix”, exhibition catalogue, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2007
• “Face a face”, exhibition catalogue, Le Mois de l’image 2007, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Mogas Station & Wonderful District)
• “Think with the senses, feel with the mind”, Participating countries & collateral events exhibition catalogue, La Biennale di Venezia 52. Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, Italy (Mogas Station)
• “Migration Addicts », exhibition catalogue, La Biennale di Venezia 52. Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, Eventi collaterali, publ. ddmwarehouse, Shanghai, China (Mogas Station)

2006
• « Belief », exhibition catalogue, Singapore Biennale, Singapore (Mogas Station)


Compilations/essays

2021

"Returning Engagements" by Viet Le, ed. Duke University Press

2016

Vietnam Eye - Contemporary Vietnamese Art, ed. Skira

2015

• "Seseri Metai Saigone" by Vita Vilimate Lefebvre Delattre, ed.Alma Litera 

2014

• "L'art contemporain au Vietnam" by Francois Damon, ed. L'Harmattan

• "Saigon Art Book 1 year", Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

• "From Identity to Mondialisation", Theatreworks, Singapore

2013
• "Saigon Art Book", Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

2009

• Le, Viet, “Miss(ing) Sai Gon: Contemporary Vietnamese Diasporic Artists – Organisers in Ho Chi Minh City,” Essays on Modern and Contemporary Vietnamese Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2005
• “Armpit of the Mole”, publ. Fundación 30 km/s, Barcelona, Spain

2004
• « Buy-Sellf », publ. Zebra 3, France

2000
• “Buy-Sellf 2000”, publ. Zebra 3, France

Special

• "A journey on the Violet" (carnet de voyage), Heritage Line, Vietnam, 2011

• "Sunday Morning" (with texts by Frederick Amproux), France, 2005
• "Livre #12" (short novel), Perav Prod, Bordeaux, France, 2003

Selection of Media/Press

2021

Maus Exemplos: Sandrine Llouquet, Radar radio, Nov.2021, Portugal

The Portugal News, Sept. 2021, Portugal

Publico, Sept. 2021, Portugal

2019

2017

Invitation au Voyage, Arte TV, June 7, France/Germany

Sandrine Llouquet - Princesses, grincesses by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, Carnet d´art, Sept 2019 (carnetdart.com)

2016

2015

• "Triển lãm “Chương 2: Chính Ngọ” - đi tìm bình minh cho mỗi tâm hồn", Song Moi Online, Septembre11, Vietnam

• "Hanh trinh dam me", L'Officiel Vietnam, Septembre 2015, Vietnam

• "Esoteric and Reimagined Religious Rituals Lay the Ground for "Carne Vale" at Galerie Quynh", Saigonneer, June 26, Vietnam

2014

• "Villes Mondes", France Culture Radio, March 16, France

2013

• My Tran, Llouquet’s alchemy, transformation, discovery and rebirth on show,” The Saigon Times, June 27, 2013, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Norman, Kelly, “The uncanny work of Sandrine Llouquet,” Thanh Nien Weekly, July 3, 2013, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• ‘Noi toi dim con rong cua Sandrine Llouquet,” Tuoi Tre TV, June 2013, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Van Bay, “Nghe si Phap goc Viet trien lam dim rong,” The Thao Van Hoa, June 26, 2013, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• ‘Chapter 1: Where I attempt to drown the dragon,” exhibition listing, ARTiT, June 2013, Tokyo, Japan

2012

• Interview with AWE50ME, http://awe50me.com/2011/08/28/sandrine-llouquet, August 2012, Singapore

2011

• "I would prefer not to", Time Out, Singapore

• My Tran, “Review: Vis-à-vis,” The Saigon Times, December 11, 2011, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2010

• Smiling Vietnam, HTV, Vietnam

• "A study in contrast: Sandrine Llouquet", East & West November 2010, Vietnam

• Butt, Zoe, “Vietnam,” Art Asia Pacific Almanac 2011, New York, New York, USA

• Nguyen Huu Cong, “Tam Ly Ech Thuy Tinh,” Tuoi Tre Online, July 2010, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Ly Doi, “Do ai biet ech thuy tinh nghi gi?,” soi.com.vn, July 2010, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Ly Doi, “Soi di xem Ech Thuy Tinh,” soi.com.vn, July 2010, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Nguyen Thi Nhu Khanh, “Tam ly ech thuy tinh o gallery Quynh,” Saigon Tiep Thi Online, July 2010, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Tran My Loan, “‘Complex of the Glass Frog’ exhibition opens in town,“ Saigon Times Online, July 2010, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• PV, “Philosophy of the glass frog,” Look at Vietnam, July 2010, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2009
• “Bui Gallery”, Asialife volume 14, Vietnam
• The Nation, Vietnam
• “Jetlag the beat goes on”, Asialife volume 10, Vietnam (Jetlag)

• Nguyen Duc Hanh, “Half of the Sky,” Timeout Magazine, November 9-15, 2009, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Hoang Ha, “Women artists hold up their end in ‘Half the Sky’,” Vietnam News, November 12, 2009, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2008
• “Jetlag”, Noi That, September 2008, Vietnam (Jetlag)

2007
• “Outside the System”, Art in America, October 2007, US (Wonderful District)
• Standard, no. 16 – summer 2007, France (Mogas Station)
• “Mot cuoi tuan tuyet voi”, Noi That, May 2007, Vietnam (Wonderful District)
• IS Magazine, April 2007, Singapore (Wonderful District)
• “Rendezvous 2”, ARTiT, winter/spring 2007, Japan (Wonderful District)
• “Sight Unseen”, The American Prospect, March 2007, US (Mogas Station)
• “Vietnam”, Art Asia Pacific Almanac 2007, US (Wonderful District) 2006
• “Ben Ngoai “5c’s”, Noi That, November 2006, Vietnam (Mogas Station)
• “In Vietnam, Nguyen Hoang Bao Ngoc interviews French-Vietnamese artist Sandrine Llouquet”, NY Arts, vol. 11 no. 5/6 international edition, US
• “Jouissance”, Noi That, July 2006, Vietnam
• “How far will freedom of expression go? New Art magazine for Saigon”, ARTiT, spring/summer 2006, Japan (Mogas Station)

2005
• “Troi oi”, Noi That, December 2005, Vietnam 2004
• Sud-Ouest, December 2004, France (Wonderful)
• “Sandrine Llouquet/Bertrand Peret”, Art Press, no. 309, France 2003
• “Nomadisme bordelais et soleil sur Nantes”, Revue 303, France
• “Le 5eme mur”, France Culture radio, broadcasting Multipistes, May 7, 2003, France (Wonderful)
• Couleur Bordeaux, France (Wonderful)
• “Le cinquième mur”, Télérama, November 12, 2003, France